VE DAY 80 YEARS ON ‘I helped defeat the Nazis - but I couldn't even tell my own mum’
- Posted on May 3, 2025
- By The Mirror
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VE DAY 80 YEARS ON ‘I helped defeat the Nazis - but I couldn't even tell my own mum’

Ruth Bourne's war work was so secretive not even her own parents knew about it - but while they saw her as a giggly teen, she was actually codebreaking at Bletchley Park. Now, 80 years on from VE Day, the Birmingham native has opened up about her historic actions.